By Professor John Bryson, Professor of Enterprise and Economic Geography Department of Strategy and International Business, University of Birmingham On the one hand, digital supermodels would remove the physical and emotional exploitation experienced by many models. On the other hand, employment opportunities for those wanting to enter fashion modelling would be destroyed The #MeToo movement has led … Continue reading “#MeToo and the male fantasy fashion robot”
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An alternative take on the benefits of increasingly targeted user engagement
By Dr David Houghton, Lecturer in Marketing at Birmingham Business School A little while back I posted a blog on what I believe is the more important issue around selfie posting: that we need to look beyond the selfie and to the self. I wanted to write a bit more on the concern that we might … Continue reading “An alternative take on the benefits of increasingly targeted user engagement”
It’s the self not the selfie: Are we heading down a wormhole?
By Dr David Houghton, Lecturer in Marketing at Birmingham Business School A few weeks back I was approached to write this blog piece on the topic of selfie culture, shortly after having appeared on BBC Breakfast discussing a similar topic. My first thoughts were, “what’s interesting about selfies?” I mean, we know from prior research, … Continue reading “It’s the self not the selfie: Are we heading down a wormhole?”